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TIL that it’s a felony to have a one night stand in Michigan

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Wk6vN TIL that the Ecce Homo painting which was turned into the "Potato Jesus" meme after a failed restoration has increased tourism in that area, and the funds go towards the church owned nursing home and the "art restorer's" son who suffers from cerebral palsy.
QNnyp TIL that clocks in the first railway stations had 3 hands, showing London time and 'local' time.
pY69Q Today I Learned that your fingernails and toenails can grow at different speeds depending on which hand is your dominant hand, and a whole bunch of other factors.
jN7Qp TIL that Marion Stokes built an archive of network, local, and cable news, in her home, one tape at a time, recording every major (and trivial) news event until the day she died in 2012 at the age of 83 of lung disease.
78a1b TIL Russian Czar Ivan the Terrible beat his daughter-in-law so badly that she miscarried her baby. When his son was angry about the beating, Ivan struck his heir in the head so fiercely that he died 5 days later.